History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

The Delta Project: Discovering New Sources of Profitability in a Networked Economy

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The Delta Project: Discovering New Sources of Profitability in a Networked Economy
Arnoldo C. Hax , Dean L. Wilde , and Lester Thurow
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Based on their acclaimed work with GM, Motorola, Coca-Cola, and other firms, Hax and Wilde offer a powerful new model for developing strategy for a globalized, deregulated, net-driven economy. It provides the key to integrating customers, products, and business allies into a management strategy sure to succeed.

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A masterful lesson.......2007-05-16

The Delta Model is a recent framework, developed at MIT by A. Hax and a variety of co-authors, to develop more efficient strategies. The core book explaining this approach is The Delta Project, has been released in 2000. Work has continued on the subject, often with Hax's Sloan Fellows students.

The Delta approach goes beyond the two dominant approaches to strategy (the famous Porterian five-force model, and the less widespread enterprise competencies/resources model) and gives company strategists the tools to broaden their vision. Among the strong points of this approach, one might mention:

* A far greater attention given to the "ecology" of complementors existing around the firm, and the extended company
* A much more precise definition of customers (encompassing all the steps up to, and including, the final customer), and very strong emphasis on exquisite segmentation
* A strong focus on the notion of "customer bonding" that partially supersedes raw competitive advantage
* A rigorous emphasis on execution, and how to measure and pilot the execution of strategy
* A clear rejection of the notion of commoditized product, and the formulation of new strategic stances going beyond "best price" or "pertinent differentiation" to include customer integration and system lock-in. Those new dimensions are organized along a figure infamous among Hax students, the Delta triangle.
* A focus on customer needs -especially untapped ones - as opposed to benchmarking oneself against competitors

Nothing new.......2006-03-03

This book has nothing new to suggest in the area of strategy. The "model" is no different than anything else suggested many years ago, and the examples of US Air and Enron are laughable. I would not recommend this book.

Concise visualization of strategy in the netwoked world........2002-01-08

The result of several years of analysis and contribution from some of the world's leading CEOs (in addition to Hax and Wilde), the Delta Project very succinctly creates a visual representation for strategy development that is both descriptive and normative. It explains the "Bonding" principle as a primary strategic force in both SRM (Supplier Relationship Management - including complementors) and CRM (Customer Relationship Management). It shows strategy as a spectrum from "Best Product" to "Total Customer Solution" to "System Lock-In" and the multiple paths and various methods to achieve each end point.
This book explains the need for process design from the start (e.g. Six Sigma), management by measurement, the failure of averages (a mean without a STD DEV is a meaningless number), and the difference in High Level and Granular metrics (what my Firm would call Critical Success Factors vs. Key Performance Indicators).
Most importantly, it drives home the most critical aspect of a winning corporate/industry/market strategy - operationalization, "Execution is NOT the problem, aligning execution to Strategy is!" I see this every day in my own client consulting. This is not a MBA textbook it is a practical, quick and succinct read.

Warmed Over and Not Worth the Time or Ink.......2001-12-15

The authors offer what they seem to think is a "new" way to view competitive success. Like many management books, the ability to derive framework from illustrations comes with limitations. Most frameworks are illustrable. The true innovations in thinking build from or rail against prevailing work, in books like Porter's or D'Aveni's counterviewpoint Hypercomopetition. What is most frustrating about this book is that it spends a lot of time in what could be said in a few pages, the result perhaps of combining an academic and personal consulting vantage - borrowing your watch to tall you the time in roman numerals! Every good manager knows that first to market isn't per se sustainable and that creating barriers to switching is good. Here, these simple truths are passed off, albeit in different words, as wisdom. Please, guys, like so many others, you would best ply your respective trades in your current arenas and leave the thinking to more cogent thinkers. Bottom-line, I wouldn't offer this for sale even used.

An analysis that holds up to changing markets.......2001-11-21

Wilde and Hax show clearly how companies can reach sustainable rather than fleeting advantage, and they do so with a framework that is applicable across industries.

Most tellingly, their model holds up well to describe the fate of Internet and technology companies after the bubble has burst, even though the book was written when the boom was in full swing. Applied in today's context their work successfully explains why eBay has remained strong while companies that merely built a customer list with nothing other than a first to market (or "best product") strategy have struggled.

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As their Millennium Development Goals, world leaders have pledged by 2015 to halve the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger, to achieve universal primary education, to reduce child mortality, to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS, and to halve the number of people without safe
drinking water. Achieving these goals requires a large increase in the flow of financial resources to developing countries - double the present development assistance from abroad.

Examining innovative ways to secure these resources, this book sets out a framework for the economic analysis of different sources of funding, applying the tools of modern public economics to identify the key issues. It examines the role of new sources of overseas aid, considers the fiscal
architecture and the lessons that can be learned from federal fiscal systems, asks how far increased transfers impose a burden on donors, and investigates how far one can separate raising resources from their use.

In turn, the book examines global environmental taxes (such as a carbon tax) the taxation of currency transactions (the Tobin tax), a development-focused allocation of Special Drawing Rights by the IMF, the UK Government proposal for an International Finance Facility, increased private donations for
development purposes, a global lottery (or premium bond), and increased remittances by emigrants. In each case, it considers the feasibility of the proposal and the resources that it can realistically raise. In each case, it offers new perspectives and insights into these new and controversial
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Aid, debt relief and new sources of finance for meeting the millennium development goals. : An article from: Journal of International Affairs

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Aid, debt relief and new sources of finance for meeting the millennium development goals. : An article from: Journal of International Affairs
Tony Addison , George Mavrotas , and Mark McGillivray
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Understanding the investment climate: new data sources about firms provide insights into helping economies grow.(investments): An article from: Finance & Development

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Understanding the investment climate: new data sources about firms provide insights into helping economies grow.(investments): An article from: Finance & Development
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This digital document is an article from Finance & Development, published by International Monetary Fund on March 1, 2005. The length of the article is 2629 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Viagene, Nanogen find new revenue sources. (Viagene Inc.; Nanogen Inc.): An article from: San Diego Business Journal

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New Sources of Development Finance
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